Usually, I do my book reviews one per post and in Swedish only. But since I "stumbled over" this post at Modern Mrs Darcy, I thought I'll go ahead and do all reviews in one post for the books I read during our Christmas- and New Year's vacation in Thailand. :)

Angelica returns to her home town after many years abroad. And since dancing is her passion, she starts to give dance classes.To this class come Katie and Ross, that got an assignment from their counselor to start a common hobby to help their crashing marriage.To the class come also Lauren and Chris - to be able to float over the dancing floor at their wedding, which is being planned meticulously by Lauren and her mother-in-law to-be.Among the other participants are Laurens parents and Katie's and Ross' friends Joanna and Greg.And Katie and Ross are not the only couple with problems...This is a feelgood novel that, of course, has a happy ending. :)

This is a Swedish book about one of three sisters (a trilogy is planned), set in 17th century Scandinavia. The sisters are daughters of a priest and following a prank, the oldest sister Ulrika elopes with her brother's friend. Whom leaves her after taken her maiden hood.Ulrika is taken care of by a couple of Travellers and follows them over the autumn and winter. We follow Ulrika, her brother, his friend and also what happens back at the vicarage.It's an interesting book, since there are not that many which are set in this place and era.

An annoying thing about this book: my Kindle shows how much time I most probably will use for the rest of the book. This time kept increasing until I've read 15% of it... ;)This book by last year's Noble Prize winner is a kind of documentary, where she toggles between telling about how she researches for the book and telling parts of the stories she's being told.Women that participated in WWII tells about their feelings and experiences. There are women that barely had finished school before enrolling and women who were older when doing it. There are women who went to war as laundresses, surgeons and bakers; as air defense soldiers, nurses and snipers.A book that really gets to you!

Julia goes to Burma to find her father, who has disappeared. The police manage to track him to Bangkok, but then the traces are lost. But Julia has an address to Mi Mi in the village of Kalaw, Burma - an address she has found on an un-posted letter in her father's old calendar. A love letter. So she goes to Kalaw to find Mi Mi.

Instead she's found by an old man, U Ba, that tells her a story of a boy who is abandoned by her parents since he was born on a Saturday in December. A boy who loses his eye sight, but can hear the most extra ordinary sounds - which no-one can explain what they are. Until he meets Mi Mi, whose heartbeats he can hear.

But then he's remembered by an uncle that needs to do a good deed. And it all ends in him going to the US where he marries and gets a child. Julia.

Detta är en kort bok om en ung tyska som stod upp för sina åsikter.
Det är en dokumentär berättelse om Sophie, som tillsammans med brodern Hans och dennes studiekamrater, startade motståndsrörelsen Vita Rosen under andra världskriget. Från sina studentrum skrev och distribuerade dessa ungdomar flygblad med texter mot Hitler och hans parti.
Efter bara ett knappt halvdussin flygblad blir de upptäckta, fängslas och avrättas...This is a short book about a young German girl who stood up for her beliefs.It is a documentary in book form, about Sophie who, together with her brother Hans and his fellow-students, started the resistance group the White Rose during WWII. From their campus they wrote and distributed flyers with texts against Hitler and his party.After just half a dozen of flyers they are caught, imprisoned and executed...

Ellie Haworth is a journalist that is desperate to get an article written. And in the meantime she's trying to read between the short lines of her lover's text messages to her.Among the papers she pick up from the archive she finds a letter. A love letter. What if she can find the man who wrote it. And the woman who received it. What an article!Jenny wakes up in a hospital bed and have no clue on who she is and why she's where she is. It seems as she's survived a car crash. Her husband, as she understands him being, takes her home when she's well enough and she tries to find her way into who her life and her old self. Whomever that was. At least it seems her old self got love letters from another man than her husband. But who is he?As with the other books I've read by Moyes the first thoughts are like "oh, yes, I've read stuff like this before - it will end like this...". But it doesn't...

My Sis has her birthday on Christmas Eve, but this (or rather last...) year we couldn't be there and celebrate her as usual. Instead she got this card in the mailbox - made from this week's sketch at Kortskissen.